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Thank you to @wedonthavetime.bsky.social for this excellent resource: a series of powerful interviews with the experts and influential attendees at the National Emergency Briefing last Thursday. #NEB2025 #ClimateCrisis
www.wedonthavetime.org/events/natio...
www.wedonthavetime.org/events/natio...
National Emergency Briefing – Nov 27, 2025–Nov 27, 2025
The first-ever National Climate Briefing in the UK — and one of the first of its kind globally
www.wedonthavetime.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Thank you to @wedonthavetime.bsky.social for this excellent resource: a series of powerful interviews with the experts and influential attendees at the National Emergency Briefing last Thursday. #NEB2025 #ClimateCrisis
www.wedonthavetime.org/events/natio...
www.wedonthavetime.org/events/natio...
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Removing the two-child limit accounts for less than 1 per cent of social security bill. To remove 450,000 children out of poverty, that's pretty good return on investment.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Removing the two-child limit accounts for less than 1 per cent of social security bill. To remove 450,000 children out of poverty, that's pretty good return on investment.
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70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
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Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
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Now that COP is over, rich countries can go back to not pretending. Until next COP when both them and their pet journalists can celebrate their climate leadership
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Now that COP is over, rich countries can go back to not pretending. Until next COP when both them and their pet journalists can celebrate their climate leadership
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I wish there was better news than this headline ⚒️🧪
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I wish there was better news than this headline ⚒️🧪
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
"Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025 - reaching a record high" (globalcarbonbudget.org/fossil-fuel-...)
+ Global Carbon Budget 2025 is out globalcarbonbudget.org/gcb-2025/
+ Paper doi.org/10.5194/essd...
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Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
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I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.
October 20, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I think I understand the many reasons why people believe it's not worth it to phase out fossil fuels, but I also feel exhausted and vaguely insane living my life knowing that while the world seems normal on the surface, the fossil-fuel economy is, right now, breaking the world forever.
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Nigel Farage can give up trying to be PM as he already runs the government. He ran the last one too.
If everything has turned to shit, it's because he's been running things, it's not because he hasn't.
If everything has turned to shit, it's because he's been running things, it's not because he hasn't.
Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering
September 30, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Nigel Farage can give up trying to be PM as he already runs the government. He ran the last one too.
If everything has turned to shit, it's because he's been running things, it's not because he hasn't.
If everything has turned to shit, it's because he's been running things, it's not because he hasn't.
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If, as Labour continues to do, for example with the language in their Immigration White Paper, you continue to reinforce this narrative, instead of combatting it and doing something to actually tackle deprivation, then of course you will strengthen the likes of Reform. 9/
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper
The white paper sets out the government's plans to create an immigration system which promotes growth but is controlled and managed.
www.gov.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If, as Labour continues to do, for example with the language in their Immigration White Paper, you continue to reinforce this narrative, instead of combatting it and doing something to actually tackle deprivation, then of course you will strengthen the likes of Reform. 9/
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Grim, and not one mention of what exacerbates drought and makes it more likely.
Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink www.bbc.com/news/article...
Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink www.bbc.com/news/article...
Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink
The drought has slashed wheat harvests by 40% in a country where nearly 90% of the population already lives in poverty.
www.bbc.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Grim, and not one mention of what exacerbates drought and makes it more likely.
Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink www.bbc.com/news/article...
Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This times 100.
Not wishing to sound like a member of Dad's Army, there were Britons struggling 100 years ago who suffered from real economic anxiety. And when they were called upon, they went off and fought fascists, rather than marched for them.
Not wishing to sound like a member of Dad's Army, there were Britons struggling 100 years ago who suffered from real economic anxiety. And when they were called upon, they went off and fought fascists, rather than marched for them.
Stephen is correct as usual but also i'm glad he's called out the utter bullshit about eCoNoMiC aNxIeTy
September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This times 100.
Not wishing to sound like a member of Dad's Army, there were Britons struggling 100 years ago who suffered from real economic anxiety. And when they were called upon, they went off and fought fascists, rather than marched for them.
Not wishing to sound like a member of Dad's Army, there were Britons struggling 100 years ago who suffered from real economic anxiety. And when they were called upon, they went off and fought fascists, rather than marched for them.
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Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate
September 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate
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Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!
The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Elon Musk addresses the ‘unite the kingdom’ march crowd via video link – UK politics live
Met Police believe 110,000 people attending rally, with one group in Whitehall throwing projectiles at officers
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!
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Reform's stormtroopers in action
This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely
September 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Reform's stormtroopers in action
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To be the candidate for British Prime Minister of both Donald Trump *and* the Taliban is not a pitch that has ever been tried before
August 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
To be the candidate for British Prime Minister of both Donald Trump *and* the Taliban is not a pitch that has ever been tried before
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It is objectively quite pathetic that politicians and pundits still treat these anti-asylum protests as if they are "the voice of the people". They have been amplified beyond any reason or sense, and yet we still even senior government officials saying we need to respect them as mainstream opinion.
Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!)
Epping: 100-150
London: 20
Birmingham: 30
Stevenage: 30-50
Norwich: ? anything of any scale
Manchester: ? anything of any scale
Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It is objectively quite pathetic that politicians and pundits still treat these anti-asylum protests as if they are "the voice of the people". They have been amplified beyond any reason or sense, and yet we still even senior government officials saying we need to respect them as mainstream opinion.
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This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3
August 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is just getting ridiculous. Nothing that has happened (or is reported below the headline to have happened) this weekend remotely justifies talk of an explosion or mass protests. The media are confecting a crisis, and, in some sections of it, hoping to provoke one. 1/3
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A valuable thread pointing out that, despite wall-to-wall media coverage, Britain's far-right anti-migrant protests are mostly tiny, and some _don't even exist_.
This is possible. But it is a very weak basis for a frontpage splash, learning absolutely nothing from credulous media reporting two weekends ago of a wave of protests that barely happened
August 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A valuable thread pointing out that, despite wall-to-wall media coverage, Britain's far-right anti-migrant protests are mostly tiny, and some _don't even exist_.
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Absolutely fire speech by @GhoshAmitav accepting the Erasmus prize.
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
August 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Absolutely fire speech by @GhoshAmitav accepting the Erasmus prize.
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
erasmusprijs.org/en/laureates...
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The actual data being presented shows immigration is falling significantly. But if the visuals that precede it are "busy hospital", "MIGRATION CRISIS", and "full small boat" (in scary washed out colours) the opposite message has already been served up, absorbed, and is hard to dislodge. ~AA
August 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The actual data being presented shows immigration is falling significantly. But if the visuals that precede it are "busy hospital", "MIGRATION CRISIS", and "full small boat" (in scary washed out colours) the opposite message has already been served up, absorbed, and is hard to dislodge. ~AA
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Repeatedly dishonest/dangerous claims and creepy behaviour by racists, egged on by Jenrick/Farage/RW media, with no pushback from spineless govt/BBC
As we walked through the car park to the beach we saw the coach and thought nothing of it. Apparently it was a group of Sikhs having a fun dayout at the seaside. They played on the beach + had a picnic. Some rascist woman filmed them, including all of the children and claimed on tik tok that Haven
August 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Repeatedly dishonest/dangerous claims and creepy behaviour by racists, egged on by Jenrick/Farage/RW media, with no pushback from spineless govt/BBC
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It bears repeating: choosing to double down and accelerate our burning of fossil fuels will kill off a substantial proportion of humanity
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction?
The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It bears repeating: choosing to double down and accelerate our burning of fossil fuels will kill off a substantial proportion of humanity
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid
www.theguardian.com/environment/...